New Table Saw? You gotta make a Pirates Treasure Chest

The slats are cut on 7 degrees and the curve was controlled by varying the width of the slats. The stipes are strips of darker (Australian blackwood) between the shaped slats. I planned the box as a table-saw dovetail exercise but I need to make a special crosscutting sled for the tails and I ran out of time. So I made splined mitred sides (messy, should have made another jig). Blackwood again. The rest of the box is macrocarpa. Thanks for looking.

Alas we will not know if the bars would’ve melted because I have to give it away. But I was able to finish it because of time pressure to get it to the party. My mate is having a big-number birthday and is leaving town on the day, so we’ll never know what became of the gold bars.